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Mesoscale Discussion 2045
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Sep 28, 2006, 3:16 PM EDT for 4 states. It was in force for 89 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 28, 2006, 3:16 PM EDT (19:16 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 28, 2006, 4:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 89 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 80 counties
Rabun County, GA, Towns County, GA, Alexander County, NC, Alleghany County, NC, Ashe County, NC, Avery County, NC, Buncombe County, NC, Burke County, NC, Caldwell County, NC, Catawba County, NC, Cherokee County, NC, Clay County, NC, Cleveland County, NC, Davie County, NC, Forsyth County, NC, Graham County, NC, Haywood County, NC, Henderson County, NC, Iredell County, NC, Jackson County, NC, Lincoln County, NC, Macon County, NC, Madison County, NC, McDowell County, NC, Mitchell County, NC, Polk County, NC, Rockingham County, NC, Rutherford County, NC, Stokes County, NC, Surry County, NC, Swain County, NC, Transylvania County, NC, Watauga County, NC, Wilkes County, NC, Yadkin County, NC, Yancey County, NC, Blount County, TN, Bradley County, TN, Carter County, TN, Cocke County, TN, Greene County, TN, Johnson County, TN, Monroe County, TN, Polk County, TN, Sevier County, TN, Sullivan County, TN, Unicoi County, TN, Washington County, TN, Amherst County, VA, Appomattox County, VA, Bedford County, VA, Bland County, VA, Botetourt County, VA, Buckingham County, VA, Campbell County, VA, Carroll County, VA, Charlotte County, VA, City of Bristol, VA, City of Danville, VA, City of Galax, VA, City of Lynchburg, VA, City of Martinsville, VA, City of Radford, VA, City of Roanoke, VA, City of Salem, VA, Craig County, VA, Floyd County, VA, Franklin County, VA, Giles County, VA, Grayson County, VA, Halifax County, VA, Henry County, VA, Montgomery County, VA, Patrick County, VA, Pittsylvania County, VA, Pulaski County, VA, Roanoke County, VA, Smyth County, VA, Washington County, VA, Wythe County, VA
The radar
The Roanoke radar (KFCX), 122 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:17 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The watches that followed
Watches SPC issued over any of the same counties within four hours of this discussion.
The nearest sounding before it
Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 7.3 hours before the alert went out and 137 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1103 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 77 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 93 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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</html>SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 28, 12:15 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Catoosa, Dade, Walker, Whitfield | 90 min |
| Sep 28, 5:48 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Banks, Barrow, Clarke, Cobb, Elbert, Forsyth and 15 more | 117 min |
| Sep 28, 1:46 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Alexander, Alleghany, Ashe, Avery, Buncombe, Burke and 28 more | 6 hr |
| Sep 28, 4:32 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Alamance, Caswell, Durham, Franklin, Granville, Guilford and 8 more | 118 min |
| Sep 28, 4:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Alamance, Chatham, Davidson, Durham, Edgecombe, Forsyth and 13 more | 7 hr |
| Sep 28, 7:12 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Anson, Cumberland, Harnett, Hoke, Montgomery, Moore and 5 more | 2 hr |
| Sep 27, 9:04 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Dyer, Gibson, Henry, Lake, Obion, Weakley | 86 min |
| Sep 28, 2:21 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Albemarle, Amelia, Appomattox, Arlington, Brunswick, Buckingham and 41 more | 54 min |
| Sep 28, 2:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Albemarle, Arlington, Augusta, Clarke, Culpeper, Fairfax and 27 more | 7 hr |
| Sep 28, 6:36 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Arlington, Buckingham, Caroline, Cumberland, Essex, Fairfax and 22 more | 84 min |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in North Carolina, 2006Mesoscale Discussions in Virginia, 2006Mesoscale Discussions in Tennessee, 2006Every mesoscale discussion in 2006
Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.